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Every step of life shows much caution is required.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Literature, Steps, Caution
"The Miracle of Self-Love: The Secret Key to Open All Doors". Book by Barbel Mohr, Manfred Mohr (p. 115), 2012.

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Children, Adults, Literature

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People, Humanity, Literature

Age merely shows what children we remain.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Children, Age, Literature
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1984). “Faust”

To create something you must be something.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Literature, Mental Strength
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.84

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Appreciate, Noble, Literature

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Literature, Facts, Shows

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love, Two, Literature

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thinking, Sick, Literature

I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Doubt, Literature, Praying

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Prejudice, Tasks, Literature
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Gage (1980). “Goethe on Art”, p.6, Univ of California Press

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life, Literature, Superstitions
'Sprüche in Prosa' (1819) 3

Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written; and of this but little is extant.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Literature, Littles, Fragments

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thoughtful, People, Literature

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Work, Bridges, Literature

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Character, Literature, World
"Torquato Tasso". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act 1, Scene 2, 66, 1790.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Understanding, Literature, Understanding And Love
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.113

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Literature, Way, Path

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Literature, Lasts, Promotion
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1898). “Faust: A Tragedy”

Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Stories, Literature, Moral

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